The Causes of Tropical Deforestation

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The rapid destruction of tropical forests is one of the mostpressing environmental problems of our time, but the internationalcommunity and national governments are unable to formulate effectivepolicy responses without a clear understanding of the causes ofdeforestation. This comprehensive and coherent account presents the'state of the art' econometric analysis of tropicaldeforestation, quantifying and examining the local and underlyingglobal causes.It is regularly alleged that, like other environmental problems, deforestation is due
to poverty, massive external debt, greedy ... Most are printed here for the first time
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The Causes of Tropical Deforestation

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Katrina Brown, David William Pearce

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UBC Press - 1994-01-01

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